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...midterms that conflict with a senior thesis. Neil Levine, Gleason professor of history of art and architecture, who teaches Literature and Arts B-34, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb,” said he will allow seniors who are writing theses to miss the midterm. “The midterm is only worth fifteen percent. I think it is only fair for seniors to have that option. The kind of work that goes into a senior thesis can be very demanding,” Levine said. —Staff writer Adrian...
LIKE REALITY TV, ROLLER DERBY mixes contrived personae with real conflict, theatrics with real spills. The women of the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their...
...productive to focus on one task at a time, but my cure for e-mail and cell-phone addiction was to quit the rat race altogether. I haven't touched a cell phone, BlackBerry or PDA in months-and after 15 years in the corporate world, I don't miss any of it. As a stay-at-home dad, I'm reaping rewards far superior to anything I could ever receive in an e-mail, memo or cell-phone call. Robert Fuller Bloomfield Township, Michigan...
...said. “Everything was falling for them, and we were getting great looks but they just weren’t falling. At the half, [Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith] said that they just couldn’t hit any more shots and we couldn’t miss any more.” Penn built a 21-11 lead on forward Jennifer Fleischer’s layup with 10:14 remaining to cap off a 16-6 Quakers run. After Fleischer’s steal resulted in a Joey Rhoads layup at 2:41 to push the Penn...
...said—but the Crimson finally silenced the Tigers for good. Du got an ovation, even if he did muff the penalty shot. “I think it was kind of representative of the whole night,” Donato said of the center’s miss. “We didn’t score [then], but we hung in there and were able to find a way.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu...